So you have a job requirement that a prospect be stupid enough to run Windows. Please let us know the companies name so that we can avoid buying any stocks or bonds you issue.
God help us if we force cameras upon people and force them to stop raping their children, assaulting elders, dealing in crack, selling stolen guns and the ten million other dangerous actions that trash tend to take, We sure wouldn't want to interfere with these jewels of society. Let's enforce privacy laws so that this evil continues to grow and spread!
We also used suspensions and expulsions to deal with those that broke rules such as not bringing certain items onto school property.
But these days the kids have turned the table on us. Now dropping out is so common that schools can not regulate the children as the schools are under pressure to keep kids from dropping out.
In order to turn things around we need to get rid of the G.E.D. and let kids know that if they drop out they will live in poverty and follow that up by demonstrating that we are more than willing to toss kids out of school.
That may sound cruel but it could stop the current loss of lives and futures that now are consequences of a broken educational system.
The logic of the story is faulty. To assume that capable civilizations would desire space travel is foolish in itself. Next if we do use the assumption that advanced critters would want to explore there is a second problem in assuming that they would not be unusually covert in those explorations. The next huge assumption is that craft or devices sent out to explore would be recognizable as such by humans.
My own perfectly irrational assumptions include the notion that we are probably surrounded be endless civilizations and many are probably so far advanced that we would look as if we were retarded cavemen to them. How else could we explain the George W. Bush presidency?
I doubt that individual wealth has increased at all. The reverse is surely true. I suspect that the average person in America would be in debt if they dropped dead at any given moment and we totaled liabilities and assets. The typical American is worth less than zero at the hour of death.
Add up credit debts, medical debts, burial debts and other end of life expenses and then sell off whatever the guy owns and compare the balances. The elderly are often broke. Working people often live from check to check and our youth typically have zero real assets.
Capitalism has become victorious and is the cannibal that eats the means of production. Now to complete the scene all we need do is use robotic technologies to replace all human work so that human abilities no longer have any financial worth. Perhaps we could allow robots to invest in other robots such that money never touched human enterprise at all. Profits would simply be used by robots to build ever better robots.
There is a huge flaw in the right wings beliefs concerning taxes. Failure to tax properly has driven the national economy to the breaking point. We are accumulating problems because the republicans failed to address them. Bridges and roads are an easy example. Ronald Reagan may have gotten support for his idiotic beliefs but while the taxes were held down bridges and roads decayed. Now we are forced to spend a lot more than if we had maintained bridges and roads in an orderly manner. Across the board for all kinds of issues the bill has come due. The dollar that was saved ten years ago now requires ten dollars in additional taxes to catch up with the neglected projects.
I loath the idea of being forced to use Windows of any flavor. And I resent hardware sellers that have product that is unfit to run from a Linux machine. If a product is fit for sale it should be usable on an OS that a lot of people use exclusively.
Restaurants can be receptive to people who occupy booths for long periods of time. I and a couple of friends used to use a booth in a 24 hour diner to play chess from about seven PM until well after midnight. We didn't order all that much. Perhaps a piece of pie or fries and sodas but it was great for the business and they loved it. We did make a point to tip the waitresses well as we didn't want to kill their earnings for the evenings. But I suspect that a few people with laptops at a booth would improve the image of a typical diner and the management might be intelligent enough to encourage it.
But will transparent aluminum keep the radio waves out of one's head the same way plain old aluminum foil always has? Perhaps the evil enemy has created transparent aluminum in order to control our minds.
Usually truth is a potent defense but I wouldn't count on it in this case. Telling a story far and wide, knowing that it would do harm, without some cause to spread the story may be seen as a deliberately savage attack. If the person had warned someone who was about to rent the unit then it is another issue. Keep in mind that there is a difference in remarking that you have mold in your apartment and saying that all the apartments have mold. That may be an untrue statement. Lack of being specific in her report may well amount to a lie.
What bothers me is the middle man concept. An artist has a right to sell his work. But companies that feed on artists and the public have no reason to exist in my opinion. I also have a problem with the notion that broadcast material remains private property. Feed chickens corn and watch them eat it and the claim is that you own the chickens and no longer own the corn. After all you broadcast the corn for all chickens to eat.
The next level on the silly scale is the notion that something is more wrong because it is easier than it used to be. For example using a VCR to record music on cable music channels is no different at all than using a hard drive connected to the exact same cable to share that same tune.
Just how can we create an entire body of law over all this silly nonsense when the real deal is that we will end up supporting mostly the monkeys in the middle who create nothing at all?
As much as I hate it there is a certain reality to economic crimes being terroristic in nature. One way to attack a nation is to destroy its economy and activities that cause economic harm to others do just that. For example drug money can wreck havoc with local housing markets when people who have large sums of money drive the cost of housing beyond the reach of more honest citizens.
We also have a problem with a type of citizen in rebellion that is exemplified by ghetto criminals. For example a black person, in rage, over historic racial issues may well feel justified in his crimes. By close study of the economies of these individuals we can spot those who get by in life by crimes.
The long and short of it all is that if it is easy to deeply study a person's finances it is easy to arrest them and stop their life of crime. A reverse audit, where a person is required to show how they paid their life expenses, is a quick and easy way to nail down a criminal.
My ability with a pen or pencil has always been an issue and I'm about to turn 65. Some people just have lousy hand writing and even making an effort to improve did little good throughout my school years and college. After going to a keyboard things got even worse as I used script less and less.
Frankly a keyboard is now so superior that going back to script seems like a rotten idea. Reading a doctor's prescription may be the ultimate example of why script should be avoided at all costs.
I think he should just go ahead and create the software. Just getting evaluations and considering all prevailing laws might be so expensive that it would ruin any hope of doing the work.
The idea that anyone can be legally safe in almost any profession is a thing of the past. My best notion is that a person simply take into account who would likely be offended or if it seems really likely that money could be made by a legal suit and then decide when to ignore all the nonsense.
In the US a lot of people are effectively, completely free of law suits threats even though they usually don't know it. For example would you spend a million bucks suing someone who would never have any way of coming up with enough money to pay for your lawyers?
Also individual states in the U.S. have different levels of protections. Florida is a great place to live if there are serious legal debts against you. You can own a mansion, a car, and receive your continuing funds in complete legal safety if you set it up correctly. What you can not do is own more than one home or land or boats. So the boats, land and other homes are generally put in the kids' names or another trusted party or even certain types of trust funds. The short story is that you can be a multi millionaire and never pay a penny of any law suit and be within the law.
The very basis for the cell phone industry was so obnoxious to me that I have always refused to own one. In addition to not liking the bills cell phones can create I also loath the idea of being on electronic leash feeling that I must be available to others at all times.
I have had employers that wished to give me a cell phone so that I would "be available for emergencies" and I refused. I have replied that I spend my free time fishing off shore where cell service is not available and if I were needed suddenly the cost of coming to shore might be very expensive and ruin the fishing trips for others. I am usually not blunt enough to blurt out that a company losing money is never a real emergency even though it may feel that way to owners. Anyone wanting me on call had better make sure I own a big chunk of the firm.
I stand by the notion that anything that involves two people is public information. In the strict sense only that which remains only in one's own mind can be considered private.
How about issues like people on parole who are not allowed to enter bars? It seems to me that there is no downside to anyone having information and it is not just bars that should be using this technology. How about gas stations running checks on people that buy gasoline? How many felons could be caught by use of such technology?
I have never disagreed with any tiny thing the EFF has done. I think they are a wonderful outfit.
However this time I disagree with their position. The ability to collect information or disperse it should never be restrained whether it involves an individual or a huge corporation. I don't even like government being able to keep strategic or military secrets. What one person is allowed to know should be known by all.
Allowing investment or the earning of profit are actually an admission that one layer of morality has vanished.If you look at the Old Testament teachings as well as the history of Jewish rulers you will find examples of monarchs who passed harsh laws against earnings or profits. The idea being that public servants and soldiers received very little and it was an abomination that a merchant or landlord earned more.
As a matter of fact if you look into Calvin who founded the protestant sect known as Calvinism about 1600AD you will find a remark that anyone who received interest should be tied to a pole and sliced apart.
In the US trading done by an automated computer program is illegal. Whether it should be or not I do not know. But apparently drastic market sways were once caused when computers used certain software to control sale and purchases. In order to drop the amplitude and frequency of those sways automated trading was deemed illegal.
Probably the real world effect of such a law is simply that the big firms must follow the law whereas individuals would probably never be noticed. But with this high speed trading even the little guys might stick out like a soar thumb.
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The real deal is that those who are middlemen seek great wealth. The people actually creating the music are paid as a trivial after thought.
So you have a job requirement that a prospect be stupid enough to run Windows. Please let us know the companies name so that we can avoid buying any stocks or bonds you issue.
God help us if we force cameras upon people and force them to stop raping their children, assaulting elders, dealing in crack, selling stolen guns and the ten million other dangerous actions that trash tend to take, We sure wouldn't want to interfere with these jewels of society. Let's enforce privacy laws so that this evil continues to grow and spread!
The more secrecy, the more privacy, the more that crime and evil prosper. Censorship is a criminal's finest friend.
Give this guy the freedom fighter of the week award! He stood up for himself and in so doing may help others.
We also used suspensions and expulsions to deal with those that broke rules such as not bringing certain items onto school property.
But these days the kids have turned the table on us. Now dropping out is so common that schools can not regulate the children as the schools are under pressure to keep kids from dropping out.
In order to turn things around we need to get rid of the G.E.D. and let kids know that if they drop out they will live in poverty and follow that up by demonstrating that we are more than willing to toss kids out of school.
That may sound cruel but it could stop the current loss of lives and futures that now are consequences of a broken educational system.
The logic of the story is faulty. To assume that capable civilizations would desire space travel is foolish in itself. Next if we do use the assumption that advanced critters would want to explore there is a second problem in assuming that they would not be unusually covert in those explorations. The next huge assumption is that craft or devices sent out to explore would be recognizable as such by humans.
My own perfectly irrational assumptions include the notion that we are probably surrounded be endless civilizations and many are probably so far advanced that we would look as if we were retarded cavemen to them. How else could we explain the George W. Bush presidency?
I doubt that individual wealth has increased at all. The reverse is surely true. I suspect that the average person in America would be in debt if they dropped dead at any given moment and we totaled liabilities and assets. The typical American is worth less than zero at the hour of death.
Add up credit debts, medical debts, burial debts and other end of life expenses and then sell off whatever the guy owns and compare the balances. The elderly are often broke. Working people often live from check to check and our youth typically have zero real assets.
Capitalism has become victorious and is the cannibal that eats the means of production. Now to complete the scene all we need do is use robotic technologies to replace all human work so that human abilities no longer have any financial worth. Perhaps we could allow robots to invest in other robots such that money never touched human enterprise at all. Profits would simply be used by robots to build ever better robots.
There is a huge flaw in the right wings beliefs concerning taxes. Failure to tax properly has driven the national economy to the breaking point. We are accumulating problems because the republicans failed to address them. Bridges and roads are an easy example. Ronald Reagan may have gotten support for his idiotic beliefs but while the taxes were held down bridges and roads decayed. Now we are forced to spend a lot more than if we had maintained bridges and roads in an orderly manner. Across the board for all kinds of issues the bill has come due. The dollar that was saved ten years ago now requires ten dollars in additional taxes to catch up with the neglected projects.
I loath the idea of being forced to use Windows of any flavor. And I resent hardware sellers that have product that is unfit to run from a Linux machine. If a product is fit for sale it should be usable on an OS that a lot of people use exclusively.
Restaurants can be receptive to people who occupy booths for long periods of time. I and a couple of friends used to use a booth in a 24 hour diner to play chess from about seven PM until well after midnight. We didn't order all that much. Perhaps a piece of pie or fries and sodas but it was great for the business and they loved it. We did make a point to tip the waitresses well as we didn't want to kill their earnings for the evenings. But I suspect that a few people with laptops at a booth would improve the image of a typical diner and the management might be intelligent enough to encourage it.
But will transparent aluminum keep the radio waves out of one's head the same way plain old aluminum foil always has? Perhaps the evil enemy has created transparent aluminum in order to control our minds.
Usually truth is a potent defense but I wouldn't count on it in this case. Telling a story far and wide, knowing that it would do harm, without some cause to spread the story may be seen as a deliberately savage attack. If the person had warned someone who was about to rent the unit then it is another issue. Keep in mind that there is a difference in remarking that you have mold in your apartment and saying that all the apartments have mold. That may be an untrue statement. Lack of being specific in her report may well amount to a lie.
What bothers me is the middle man concept. An artist has a right to sell his work. But companies that feed on artists and the public have no reason to exist in my opinion. I also have a problem with the notion that broadcast material remains private property. Feed chickens corn and watch them eat it and the claim is that you own the chickens and no longer own the corn. After all you broadcast the corn for all chickens to eat.
The next level on the silly scale is the notion that something is more wrong because it is easier than it used to be. For example using a VCR to record music on cable music channels is no different at all than using a hard drive connected to the exact same cable to share that same tune.
Just how can we create an entire body of law over all this silly nonsense when the real deal is that we will end up supporting mostly the monkeys in the middle who create nothing at all?
As much as I hate it there is a certain reality to economic crimes being terroristic in nature. One way to attack a nation is to destroy its economy and activities that cause economic harm to others do just that. For example drug money can wreck havoc with local housing markets when people who have large sums of money drive the cost of housing beyond the reach of more honest citizens.
We also have a problem with a type of citizen in rebellion that is exemplified by ghetto criminals. For example a black person, in rage, over historic racial issues may well feel justified in his crimes. By close study of the economies of these individuals we can spot those who get by in life by crimes.
The long and short of it all is that if it is easy to deeply study a person's finances it is easy to arrest them and stop their life of crime. A reverse audit, where a person is required to show how they paid their life expenses, is a quick and easy way to nail down a criminal.
My ability with a pen or pencil has always been an issue and I'm about to turn 65. Some people just have lousy hand writing and even making an effort to improve did little good throughout my school years and college. After going to a keyboard things got even worse as I used script less and less.
Frankly a keyboard is now so superior that going back to script seems like a rotten idea. Reading a doctor's prescription may be the ultimate example of why script should be avoided at all costs.
I think he should just go ahead and create the software. Just getting evaluations and considering all prevailing laws might be so expensive that it would ruin any hope of doing the work.
The idea that anyone can be legally safe in almost any profession is a thing of the past. My best notion is that a person simply take into account who would likely be offended or if it seems really likely that money could be made by a legal suit and then decide when to ignore all the nonsense.
In the US a lot of people are effectively, completely free of law suits threats even though they usually don't know it. For example would you spend a million bucks suing someone who would never have any way of coming up with enough money to pay for your lawyers?
Also individual states in the U.S. have different levels of protections. Florida is a great place to live if there are serious legal debts against you. You can own a mansion, a car, and receive your continuing funds in complete legal safety if you set it up correctly. What you can not do is own more than one home or land or boats. So the boats, land and other homes are generally put in the kids' names or another trusted party or even certain types of trust funds. The short story is that you can be a multi millionaire and never pay a penny of any law suit and be within the law.
The very basis for the cell phone industry was so obnoxious to me that I have always refused to own one. In addition to not liking the bills cell phones can create I also loath the idea of being on electronic leash feeling that I must be available to others at all times.
I have had employers that wished to give me a cell phone so that I would "be available for emergencies" and I refused. I have replied that I spend my free time fishing off shore where cell service is not available and if I were needed suddenly the cost of coming to shore might be very expensive and ruin the fishing trips for others. I am usually not blunt enough to blurt out that a company losing money is never a real emergency even though it may feel that way to owners. Anyone wanting me on call had better make sure I own a big chunk of the firm.
I miss win 3.1 as much as I miss Michael Jackson! As Bill Maher remarked Jackson was the most important WHITE WOMAN to perish since Princess Diana.
I stand by the notion that anything that involves two people is public information. In the strict sense only that which remains only in one's own mind can be considered private.
How about issues like people on parole who are not allowed to enter bars? It seems to me that there is no downside to anyone having information and it is not just bars that should be using this technology. How about gas stations running checks on people that buy gasoline? How many felons could be caught by use of such technology?
I have never disagreed with any tiny thing the EFF has done. I think they are a wonderful outfit.
However this time I disagree with their position. The ability to collect information or disperse it should never be restrained whether it involves an individual or a huge corporation. I don't even like government being able to keep strategic or military secrets. What one person is allowed to know should be known by all.
Allowing investment or the earning of profit are actually an admission that one layer of morality has vanished.If you look at the Old Testament teachings as well as the history of Jewish rulers you will find examples of monarchs who passed harsh laws against earnings or profits. The idea being that public servants and soldiers received very little and it was an abomination that a merchant or landlord earned more.
As a matter of fact if you look into Calvin who founded the protestant sect known as Calvinism about 1600AD you will find a remark that anyone who received interest should be tied to a pole and sliced apart.
In the US trading done by an automated computer program is illegal. Whether it should be or not I do not know. But apparently drastic market sways were once caused when computers used certain software to control sale and purchases. In order to drop the amplitude and frequency of those sways automated trading was deemed illegal.
Probably the real world effect of such a law is simply that the big firms must follow the law whereas individuals would probably never be noticed. But with this high speed trading even the little guys might stick out like a soar thumb.
I am trying not to shout cut off the hands of the telco and use their hands to sign the confessions. These corporations are going way too far.